The Rev. Grant Storms, the Christian fundamentalist known for his bullhorn protests of the Southern Decadence festival in the French Quarter, was arrested on a charge of masturbating at a Metairie park Friday afternoon.

Storms, 53,... was taken into custody at Lafreniere Park after two women reported seeing him masturbating in the driver's seat of his van, which was parked near the carousel and playground, a Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office report said.

Storms said he tends the lawns of several customers near the park and stopped there to relax. He initially told investigators that he had urinated in a bottle in the van instead of going to the restroom.

"In the lawn care business, you carry a pee bottle and I did urinate in the pee bottle and my pants were open and I put my hands in my pants," he said.

He also asked for forgiveness from his wife and four children, admitting that he has a problem with sexually explicit material.

Phobia

03-02-2011, 11:39 AM

If you can't masturbate at the park, why do they build so many parks?

Rain Man

03-02-2011, 11:42 AM

Damn women turned him in. That's just not right. If I saw a woman masturbating in the park, I wouldn't turn her in. Not at all. Never. Wouldn't do it. In fact, I'd stand guard and make sure no one else turned her in.